Get the critical, in-depth information you need to administer SharePoint 2010. Led by SharePoint MVPs and featuring insights from the SharePoint community and members of the SharePoint Team at Microsoft, you'll discover how to plan, design, deploy, and manage strategic solutions using SharePoint 2010, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows PowerShell, and other key technologies. Topics include architecture, deployment scenarios, design considerations, security best practices, high availability, performance, centralized administration, disaster recovery, customization, solution development, and upgrade and migration strategies. Key solutions include building and managing a server farm, automating tasks, FAST search application management, enterprise and web content management, and business intelligence. For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

A preparation guide for the MCTS (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) certification for Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Microsoft® SharePoint 2010 Unleashed Michael Noel Colin Spence Using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 technologies, organizations can bring together, utilize, and collaborate with information from virtually any source. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed is the most complete, practical resource for all administrators, managers, architects, users, and power users who want to make the most of this powerful platform. Drawing on their experience implementing SharePoint solutions in hundreds of organizations, Michael Noel and Colin Spence cover all facets of succeeding with SharePoint: planning, deployment, migration, scalability, administration, security, Microsoft Office integration, workflow and dashboard development, and more. Noel and Spence illuminate the newest SharePoint innovations, from new social networking features to improved search, helping you make the most of both SharePoint Foundation and SharePoint Server 2010. Using easy-to-understand, step-by-step examples, the authors help you streamline administration, optimize performance, control cost, and implement high-value solutions for collaboration, document management, and business intelligence. Architect and implement SharePoint 2010, and migrate from legacy SharePoint servers Perform advanced installations that maximize scalability Monitor, back up, and restore SharePoint environments Maintain the SQL Server databases on which SharePoint 2010 relies Systematically improve edge, transport, and content security Deploy SharePoint in extranets and alternative authentication scenarios Create highly efficient virtualized SharePoint 2010 farms Customize and manage libraries and lists for your specific requirements Design and manage pages and sites for knowledge workers Effectively manage metadata and content types Integrate content using Office Web Apps and Excel, Access, and Visio Graphics Services Create both out-of-the-box and customized SharePoint workflows Develop custom solutions with SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Create BI solutions with PerformancePoint and Business Connectivity Services Govern your SharePoint ecosystem for maximum value Michael Noel, MS-MVP, MCITP, is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well-known public speaker on a wide range of IT topics. He is the author of 17 books, including Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed, and Microsoft Forefront Unleashed. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Colin Spence, MCP, MCTS SharePoint, has worked with SharePoint technologies for nearly a decade, helping hundreds of clients architect, implement, and manage customized SharePoint solutions. He speaks, publishes, and blogs regularly on SharePoint technologies. Noel and Spence are partners at Convergent Computing, a leading Microsoft partner in the San Francisco Bay area, and co-authors of SharePoint 2007 Unleashed. ON THE WEB: Download all examples and source code presented in this book from informit.com/title/9780672333255 Category: Microsoft Office 2010 Covers: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 User Level: Intermediate–Advanced

Covers SharePoint 2013, Office 365’s SharePoint Online, and Other Office 365 Components In SharePoint 2013 Field Guide, top consultant Errin O’Connor and the team from EPC Group bring together best practices and proven strategies drawn from hundreds of successful SharePoint and Office 365 engagements. Reflecting this unsurpassed experience, they guide you through deployments of every type, including the latest considerations around private, public, and hybrid cloud implementations, from ECM to business intelligence (BI), as well as custom development and identity management. O’Connor reveals how world-class consultants approach, plan, implement, and deploy SharePoint 2013 and Office 365’s SharePoint Online to maximize both short- and long-term value. He covers every phase and element of the process, including initial “whiteboarding”; consideration around the existing infrastructure; IT roadmaps and the information architecture (IA); and planning for security and compliance in the new IT landscape of the hybrid cloud. SharePoint 2013 Field Guide will be invaluable for implementation team members ranging from solution architects to support professionals, CIOs to end-users. It’s like having a team of senior-level SharePoint and Office 365 hybrid architectureconsultants by your side, helping you optimize your success from start to finish! Detailed Information on How to… Develop a 24-36 month roadmap reflecting initial requirements, longterm strategies, and key unknowns for organizations from 100 users to 100,000 users Establish governance that reduces risk and increases value, covering the system as well as information architecture components, security, compliance, OneDrive, SharePoint 2013, Office 365, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and identity management Address unique considerations of large, global, and/or multilingual enterprises Plan for the hybrid cloud (private, public, hybrid, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) Integrate SharePoint with external data sources: from Oracle and SQL Server to HR, ERP, or document management for business intelligence initiatives Optimize performance across multiple data centers or locations including US and EU compliance and regulatory considerations (PHI, PII, HIPAA, Safe Harbor, etc.) Plan for disaster recovery, business continuity, data replication, and archiving Enforce security via identity management and authentication Safely support mobile devices and apps, including BYOD Implement true records management (ECM/RM) to support legal/compliance requirements Efficiently build custom applications, workflows, apps and web parts Leverage Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SharePoint 2010 is nothing like its predecessors -- and this book is unlike any other book on upgrading. Sharepoint 2010: Best Practices to Upgrade and Migrate consists of a series of recent blog posts and articles from people who have been in the SharePoint admin trenches a long, long time. Together, these offerings provide an expert body of knowledge on how to launch SharePoint 2010 successfully, without pulling all-nighters or causing major disruptions. Author Joel Oleson was involved in the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint, and he began blogging on the topic five years ago as a way to help IT customers. Now he and other experts in the SharePoint community share their unique insights into the business of upgrading and migrating to SharePoint 2010. This book is perfect for browsing, so feel free to jump around to the topics that concern you most. Prepare yourself for SharePoint and Office 2010 by archiving, cleaning up, and considering the move to 64-bit Learn real-world upgrade methods, such as using PowerShell, database attach, a gradual upgrade, or an in-place upgrade Consider upgrade development and customization options Determine what not to migrate to SharePoint 2010 Discover what's new in SharePoint capacity planning and how you can take advantage of it Learn how to upgrade from SharePoint 2003 Get an extensive list of upgrade and migration tools

Covers SharePoint 2013, Office 365's SharePoint Online, and Other Office 365 Components In SharePoint 2013 Field Guide, top consultant Errin O'Connor and the team from EPC Group bring together best practices and proven strategies drawn from hundreds of successful SharePoint and Office 365 engagements. Reflecting this unsurpassed experience, they guide you through deployments of every type, including the latest considerations around private, public, and hybrid cloud implementations, from ECM to business intelligence (BI), as well as custom development and identity management. O'Connor reveals how world-class consultants approach, plan, implement, and deploy SharePoint 2013 and Office 365's SharePoint Online to maximize both short- and long-term value. He covers every phase and element of the process, including initial "whiteboarding"; consideration around the existing infrastructure; IT roadmaps and the information architecture (IA); and planning for security and compliance in the new IT landscape of the hybrid cloud. SharePoint 2013 Field Guide will be invaluable for implementation team members ranging from solution architects to support professionals, CIOs to end-users. It's like having a team of senior-level SharePoint and Office 365 hybrid architectureconsultants by your side, helping you optimize your success from start to finish! Detailed Information on How to... Develop a 24-36 month roadmap reflecting initial requirements, longterm strategies, and key unknowns for organizations from 100 users to 100,000 users Establish governance that reduces risk and increases value, covering the system as well as information architecture components, security, compliance, OneDrive, SharePoint 2013, Office 365, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and identity management Address unique considerations of large, global, and/or multilingual enterprises Plan for the hybrid cloud (private, public, hybrid, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) Integrate SharePoint with external data sources: from Oracle and SQL Server to HR, ERP, or document management for business intelligence initiatives Optimize performance across multiple data centers or locations including US and EU compliance and regulatory considerations (PHI, PII, HIPAA, Safe Harbor, etc.) Plan for disaster recovery, business continuity, data replication, and archiving Enforce security via identity management and authentication Safely support mobile devices and apps, including BYOD Implement true records management (ECM/RM) to support legal/compliance requirements Efficiently build custom applications, workflows, apps and web parts Leverage Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Learn from Pro SharePoint Migration on how to migrate your existing farm - infrastructure, upgrade approaches, code, branding, and impact of new features of SharePoint 2010 - in a strategic way that results in smooth transition. Noted author Sahil Malik, with Srini Sistla, work together to provide detailed strategies and tools to assess, plan and execute a SharePoint 2010 migration that is efficient and cost-effective—and that doesn't use expensive third-party software. The "clean slate" approach embraced by this book, coupled with flexible tools designed by Microsoft and the author, will provide you with the statistics, charts, and diagrams necessary to perform a meaningful assessment of your current SharePoint 2007 environment. You'll then be able to plan the lowest-cost, least-hassle way to migrate your current environment, and its applications and data, to SharePoint 2010, and how to map your existing use of SharePoint 2007 to the new features and enhancements in SharePoint 2010. Pro SharePoint Migration will help you: Gain a better understanding of high level comparison and changes you need to learn between the two versions To migrate or not? Learn about new functionality that might replace your existing custom built code or non-code based solutions. Build a strong toolset to create, update, administer, and migrate 90% of the most commonly used SharePoint objects Grasp the intricacies of the SharePoint 2010 application programming interface (API) Become a better SharePoint 2010 administrator in your newly-migrated environment